Somerfield
| Locations: | 15 services |
| Often accompanied by: | Texaco |
| Removed: | 2012 |
| Predecessors: | Star Market, Safeway |
| Successors: | M&S Simply Food, Co-op Food, Shell, Total |
As a convenience store, Somerfield had a fleeting appearance at motorway services, but had more of an impact with their forecourts.
Somerfield would generally operate stores attached to Texaco filling stations, plus a few attached to BP that were purchased from Safeway. The lease of some of those was taken over by Shell in 2008.
They also leased a supermarket which formed the majority of the facilities at the unusual Blackburn with Darwen services. This stemmed from their relationship with Margram, where Somerfield opened at a few Margram forecourts.
In March 2009 the Somerfield chain was taken over by Co-operative Group to merge with their The Co-operative Food brand, which took effect over the following three years. All stores have since been re-branded again to Co-op Food.
Locations
Somerfield used to be found at the following services:
- Baldock (A1(M)/A1)
- Beechings Way (A289)
- Blackburn with Darwen (M65)
- Bobbing Corner (A249)
- Buck Barn (A24)
- Cambridge (A14)
- Cirencester (A417)
- Clitheroe (A59)
- Evesham (A46)
- Galley's Corner (A120)
- Minster (A299)
- Moor Farm (A19)
- Peterborough (A1(M)/A1)
- Polegate (A27)
- Solstice (A303)
- West Wellow (A36)
- Woodhouse (A171)